Rashidi

Houston 03-04

Jumpers
96% of shots
.501 efg%
65% assisted
3% blocked
15.0 points

Close
4% of shots
.300 efg%
11% assisted
20% blocked
0.4 points

Dunks
less than 1% of shots
.000 efg%
0% assisted
0% blocked
0.0 points

Tips
less than 1% of shots
.000 efg%
0% assisted
0% blocked
0.0 points

Inside (Close/Dunks/Tips)
.273 efg%
9% assisted
18% blocked
0.4 points

Foul Draw 7.4%

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Houston 02-03
Jumpers
93% of shots
.515 efg%
54% assisted
3% blocked
15.0 points

Close
7% of shots
.381 efg%
22% assisted
15% blocked
0.9 points

Dunks
less than 1% of shots
.600 efg%
33% assisted
0% blocked
0.1 points

Tips
less than 1% of shots
.000 efg%
0% assisted
0% blocked
0.0 points

Inside (Close/Dunks/Tips)
7% of shots
.381 efg%
22% assisted
15% blocked
1.0 points

Foul Draw 8.1%

Houston can create his own jump shot, and hit it as if it were a simple layup. He is better off shooting from the outside rather than driving in, because thanks to his height and his ability to create space between himself and his man, his jumpers are rarely blocked. He became more of a spot up shooter when playing with Marbury, simply because he was playing with Marbury. I'll bet that Crawford is being assisted on more shots than last year too. His knee clearly led to his inside game going from barely there to non-existent, but his outside game, you know, the one the Knicks badly need, that was barely affected at all. If anything, it just means that his shot might get blocked a little bit more, which probably means less drilling it in peoples faces from 23 feet out.

The whole reason Houston was injured in the first place was because he always came back from injuries ahead of schedule. He did it last year in that game against Washington and it cost him. Aren't you the same person who had the audacity to complain when Antonio McDyess is playing 30 minutes in a preseason game.

This year Jamal is
85% jumpers
15% close
2% dunk
1% tips
19% inside
4.9 foul draw%

At least Houston takes the time to spot up his jump shots instead of wildly flailing them up like Crawford. He is also intelligent enough to get a defender to buy a fake so he can draw the foul on a bump. Crawford drives more than Houston but still draws a lot less fouls.